Speaker Vows To Block ‘No-Deal’!

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THE SPEAKER of the House of Commons has said that he will not allow it to be closed down so that the UK can...

Kensington Election Campaign

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CAMPAIGNERS for WRP Kensington parliamentary candidate Scott Dore took to the streets yesterday. Ayan gave her support to the candidate. She said, ‘I think that...
Northern Ireland midwives are insisting that many more are required. Above, they take the first strike action in the union’s history

RECRUIT MORE MIDWIVES – NO AGENCY STAFF! says Royal College of Midwives

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‘WE need an effective and sustainable solution, not a sticking plaster,’ said Jon Skewes, of the Royal College of Midwives, yesterday. Responding to Monitor, the...
Teachers and civil servants took strike action on June 30 against the vicious pension cuts that the Tory-LibDem coalition is trying to force through

Trade Unions Condemn The Great Pensions Robbery!

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‘The money is not going to any pension scheme, it is going to the Treasury. This increase isn’t about making the NHS pension sustainable...

SPEAKER TO QUIT ON JUNE 21st

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HOUSE of Commons Speaker Michael Martin announced that he intends to stand down on June 21, so becoming the first Commons Speaker to be...

Doctors’ strike out solid for pay and to save NHS

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Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...
Unite members outside parliament yesterday demanding the right to work

‘NATIONAL EMERGENCY!’ – TUC condemns 1.97 million unemployed

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THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) warned of a ‘national emergency’ yesterday as the latest unemployment figures were published, showing that UK unemployment rose to...

13-year-old Palestinian boy killed for letting off fireworks!

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THE ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday. In...

Government Rushes To Placate Angry Generals

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THE government has ruled that millions of pounds of compensation will be paid to British troops wounded in Iraq after May 2003, when the...

Johnson squirms over ‘surrender’ to the ‘Surrender Act!’

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Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to deliver a squirming account of his failure to take the UK out of the EU on...

Police Commissioner Michael has questions to answer over the death of two youths!

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DESPITE thousands of people having seen CCTV footage on the BBC of Kyrees Sullivan, aged 16, and Harvey Evans, aged 15, being chased on...

Covid measures reintroduced tomorrow – Javid under fire for not testing for new variant...

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TORY Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said face masks will be compulsory in shops and on public transport in England from tomorrow in response...

Junior Doctors and Consultants begin 3 days of strike action

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JUNIOR Doctors and Consultants begin three days of joint strike action at 7am this morning, determined to defend the NHS and defeat the Tory...
Striking Romec workers in Westminster yesterday

Royal Mail Engineers – Three Days Of Strike Action

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‘They are trying to destroy our home life with no discussion. It’s back to the bad old days – at the beck and call...

70th anniversary of Chinese Revolution!

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CHINA has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with a massive military parade in Beijing showing off some of the world’s most advanced...
Local NUT members came to support CWU pickets at the Greenford Mail Centre in West London yesterday morning

‘we All Need To Strike Together’

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THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside Hounslow Civic Centre speaking to NUT member Bob Garnett

Workers sign up for August 20th rally

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TRADE unionists and Hounslow local people yesterday supported the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and bought tickets for their first anniversary march and rally in...

Scottish Schools Re-0Pening Failure

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DESPITE the Scottish experiment of opening schools in August proving to be a total failure, the Tories proceeded with the re-opening of schools in...

Victory To Striking Nurses!

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‘THE damage that you’re doing to families like mine is terrible,’ the mother of a sick three-year-old girl told Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay...
UCU strikers fighting to defend their pensions were joined by students yesterday on a lively march through central London

Strike Until We Win! – Lecturers

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OXFORD and Cambridge lecturers joined a three thousand-strong march in central London yesterday called by the London Region UCU on the 13th day of...

LEGISLATION IS ESSENTIAL – says Leveson

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LORD JUSTICE Leveson yesterday called for tougher press self-regulation backed by legislation. Announcing the publication of his report at a news conference which took no...

Raab Refuses To Give End Of Lockdown Date

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FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab rebuked the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of rebel Tory MPs yesterday, insisting that the government won’t be held to an...

Johnson to remove restrictions – Putting transport staff’s lives at risk – warns RMT

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‘WE KNOW that we are going to see more hospitalisations and more deaths from Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson admitted at yesterday’s 5.00pm press conference...
Doctors in Rugby demanding out with polyclinics

NHS – CLOSE AND PRIVATISE SAYS CBI – as government welcomes report

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday rejected a call from the Confederation of British Industries (CBI) for ‘failing’ hospitals to be closed and replaced...

UK is bankrupt! – UK national debt is 103.5% of GDP

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UK GOVERNMENT borrowing hit £36.1bn in September as the UK continued heavy spending to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. The figure was £28.4bn...

Javid gambling with people’s lives! – self-isolating rules abandoned

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GAMBLING with people’s lives, the new Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid made a statement on removing Covid-19 restrictions yesterday. He told Parliament: ‘We...
Over 500 workers and youth marched through Athens on Thursday night against the Syriza betrayal demanding ‘Cancel the debt’

Germany signs austerity ‘deal’ – as Greek workers riot

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THE GERMAN parliament voted yesterday to extend the ‘bailout package’ to Greece by another four months, while in Greece workers erupted on the streets...

Coventry Council sacks hundreds!

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THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...
Nurses and other NHS workers on the 50,000-strong London march during the pensions strike last month

Industrial action not ruled out – over pensions says Scottish BMA leader

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A group of seven leading public health specialists, past presidents of the UK Faculty of Public Health, have called for the Health and Social...

OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire

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German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...

Israeli tanks surround Gaza hospital – forcibly remove staff and patients!

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ISRAELI occupation forces have encircled the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, demanding the immediate evacuation of all those inside. Gunfire has been reported...

Jobless rate up to 7.2%

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THE rate of unemployment in the UK has risen from 7.1% to 7.2% the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday. The ONS figures...

Firefighters sign deal to respond to terrorist attacks!

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FIREFIGHTERS in London and Manchester have signed agreements that will see them committed to respond to Marauding Terrorist Attacks (MTA), following a ballot of...

Israel steps up its counter-revolutionary war on Hamas!

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AFTER a night of airstrikes, the Israeli military has initiated a ground operation into the northern section of the Nuseirat camp, described by an...

Steelworkers demonstrate in Westminster

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FIFTY steelworkers and their supporters demonstrated outside Portcullis House in Westminster yesterday morning as negotiations between their Unite union leaders, the Tata Steel privateers...
The BMA demonstrating against the privatisation of the NHS

Banning Procedures On NHS – A ‘gamble With Patient Health’

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Banning NHS operations to save money will gamble with patients’ health, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned yesterday. John Black, one of...
Striking British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday morning

BA Cabin Crew Fighting Poverty Pay!

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‘WILLIE, Willie, Willie – Out, Out Out!’ rang out on picket lines around Heathrow Airport in West London yesterday morning, as thousands of British...
A section of the audience of the over 150 workers and youth who attended the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital and the NHS.

Trade unions must take action to defend the NHS!

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MORE than 150 workers and youth attended the conference for strike action to defend Ealing Hospital and the NHS, in Southall yesterday. Moving the resolution,...
Marchers pushed aside the fence around the Greek parliament and chanted ‘Bread, Education and Freedom’

‘ALL EUROPE IS FIGHTING’ say Greek workers

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GREEK local government along with college and university administrative workers are continuing with occupations, strikes and demonstrations against the government’s mass sackings plans. On...
Far from being a friendly ‘4th emergency service’ the GMB states the AA has introduced an ‘oppressive work regime’ and has picketed AA centres like Cheadle to defend sacked disabled members

‘SKATING ON THIN ICE!’ – RCN warns Blair on NHS while UNISON will back...

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Yesterday the two biggest health unions warned prime minister Blair about the state of the health service. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr...
BMA members marching on the November 3rd ‘NHSTogether’ demonstration in London

‘Bully’ Brown Puts Targets Before Healthcare

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THE BMA yesterday condemned the Brown government for putting the drive to reach its political targets before patient healthcare. ‘We are being bullied so...

Thousands join BBC unions to take strike action!

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The BBC was gripped by the biggest strike in ten years yesterday, as over 11,000 journalists and technicians from all three BBC unions –...

World-wide youth strike March 15th

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TENS of thousands of school students around the world are set to walk out of their schools again to join the world-wide ‘Youth Strike...
Enthusiastic striking BA cabin crew aboard their battle bus at Heathrow yesterday

‘We are fighting for our rights!’

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PICKET lines at Heathrow Airport were all manned successfully yesterday and there was a carnival atmosphere at the Bedfont Football Club, as a battle...
Students demonstrate last year against tuition fees

‘STUDENT COMMUTERS’ Poorer students forced to live at home and commute

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STUDENTS from poorer backgrounds are being forced to become ‘student commuters’, living in their home town and then commuting back and forth on a...